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Date:      Wed, 18 Jul 2001 03:53:45 +0100
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: any benefits to XFree86 4 on a laptop?
Message-ID:  <20010718035344.A67305@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010718121640.E69861@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:16:40PM %2B0930
References:  <20010717171937.A61988@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010718121640.E69861@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:16:40PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
| On Tuesday, 17 July 2001 at 17:19:37 +0100, j mckitrick wrote:
| >
| > No fancy graphics chips or anything, I just wondered if it is more
| > efficient, stable, or otherwise better.
| 
| (looks for question.)
| 
| Ah, 
| 
| > Subject: Re: any benefits to XFree86 4 on a laptop?
| 
| Well, one significant benefit is that it supports more laptop graphics
| chip sets.  Both of my latest laptops (Dell Inspiron 7500, IBM
| ThinkPad T22) need it to run at all .

IIUC, I need to rebuild *ALL* of my X apps, correct?



jcm
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